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An Analysis Of Doodle's I Can T Walk, Brother

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The last form of irony is the dramatic irony, which is Brother's blindness to Doodle's limitations. This particular irony spans the whole story unlike the others. Doodle, before overcoming the first challenge of walking, claims, "'I can't walk, Brother'"(157). Doodle himself doesn't expect much from himself. He knows that he has a physical disability, and therefore cannot do certain things that others can do. However, Doodle does come to a point in where he could walk, and later run. "He, too, now believed in my infallibility, so we set the deadlines for these accomplishments less than a year away..." (159). While the main character has grand dreams of making Doodle as similar to other children as possible, he forgets that Doodle is different

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